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3 reasons a personal budget is vital for achieving financial goals
Learn three reasons why a personal budget is such an important tool to help you achieve your financial goals and dreams.
Managing Receipts: 4 Apps to Make Filing Receipts Quick and Easy
They say only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. For a lot of people, there’s also a third certainty in life: the pain of keeping track of every receipt when it’s time to do the taxes. How many times has your bookkeeper or finance manager asked you for a receipt (that you […]
Creating quotes and proposals FASTER: 5 reasons (and 8 apps) to automate your proposal process
When a prospective client asks you for a quote, it’s a powerful opportunity to make a sale. In fact, with the right response you may be able to ‘seal the deal’ almost immediately. But if you take your time to respond, provide wildly different quotes for similar work, or otherwise send bad signals about your […]
How to future-proof your business & avoid being a victim of disruption
If you once ran a thriving taxi company that started to fade when Uber burst on the scene or a hotel that suffered from the impact of Airbnb, you know what the word “disruption” means. You probably don’t do either of those things but could the business you do run be equally at risk from […]
10 factors that affect the value of your business
Thinking of selling? Or just curious to know the value of your business in case you do decide to put it on the market at some point? Many business owners are well-wide of the mark when placing a value on their prized asset. They overvalue it and under-prepare for their exit, believing in a huge […]
Signed and sealed: 5 reasons your business should use electronic signatures instead of paper-based agreements
“Signing on the dotted line.” It wasn’t all that long ago that phrase meant signing pen-on-paper. Increasingly these days it can also mean signing on-screen with a stylus—or even with your finger tip!—or by using your computer and keyboard. So why have many businesses moved to using electronic signatures? What are the advantages over using […]
Does your business have poor cyber security? Here are 11 ways password manager apps improve your security and save you time
Cloud computing and web-based apps have undoubtedly improved business efficiency. But once you and your team start using various online apps, one aspect quickly becomes inefficient (not to mention downright annoying): having to repeatedly enter usernames and passwords to log in. It’s bad enough having to enter a multitude of login credentials when you first […]
So You’re in Business: Are You an Entrepreneur, a Manager or a Technician?
“You need to work on your business, not just in your business.” Made popular by The E-Myth Revisited author Michael Gerber, it’s advice I’m sure you’ve heard dozens of times over the years (I certainly have). But despite being told over and over again, many small business owners still don’t seem to truly understand what […]